Spine surgery is performed with increasing frequency in ASCs around the country. As a result, ASCs are being forced to reexamine their approach to ensuring efficiency while maintaining appropriate levels of patient safety. The need to increase operating room efficiency…
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The House of Representatives passed the health reform bill by a vote of 220-207 in the final vote in a complicated legislative process, according to a report by the New York Times.
Daisy Martinez has been sentenced to 96 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $10.7 million in restitution for her role in a series of Detroit-area Medicare fraud schemes, according to a news release by the U.S. Department…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service sent a response to the American Society of Anesthesiologists providing context and rationale for recent updated Interpretive Guidelines for the Medicare Hospital Conditions of Participation, according to an ASA news release.
Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital has plans to build a $9.4 million hospital-based multi-specialty ASC on its campus that will include four operating rooms and two endoscopy rooms, according to a story in Buffalo Business First.
An experimental vaccine against an abnormal protein found in some tumors has the potential to delay the onset of inflammatory bowel disease and in turn prevent progression to colon cancer, according to a study by researchers at the University of…
FirstHealth of the Carolinas and the Surgery Center of Pinehurst (N.C.) have appealed a state denial of a certificate of need for a new freestanding ASC in Hoke County, N.C., according to a news release from FirstHealth.
Unlike many other types of ASC services, gastroenterology, by nature, is more limited in terms of the ability of operators to select certain procedures to maximize reimbursement.
Barry Tanner, president and CEO of Physicians Endoscopy, believes ASCs will be net winners under the new health reform law. "We don't know how this new law will mature over the next 5-10 years, but I do believe that ASCs…
As healthcare facility operators grapple with the effects of a slowed economy and prepare for possible fallout from national healthcare reform, Michael Karnes, the co-founder and CFO of Regent Surgical Health, discusses here several key factors driving ASC valuations.